Wesley Tour of England 

METHODIST CHURCH CHOIR AND HERITAGE TOURS.  Tour  England with your church heritage group or choir, visiting the sites of Methodist history, and tracing the lives of John and Charles Wesley

The Old Rectory in Epworth,   Oxford,  Christ Church College and Cathedral, the New Room in Bristol, and  Wesley’s Chapel and House in London.

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We are all familiar with the concept of a pilgrimage tour:  a journey to a sacred place as an act of devotion.  Cultural Tour Consultants continues to offer religious tours to sites of historic and spiritual importance to church denominations (see listing below).

Cultural Tour Consultants introduces the broader concept of an Inspirational Tour, widening involvement to include any group of people, sharing a set of ideals, who come together to follow a journey with the goal of finding inspiration and fulfillment – spiritual or intellectual. 

Tourism is no longer limited to visiting the must-see sights.  The modern tourist wants to see new terrain but also wants to discover different cultures, widen his/her perspective on social and political issues and may also seek to make some positive impact on the world through humanitarian efforts.

An Inspirational Tour may include a spiritual dimension.  It may arise from a church congregation’s desire to visit a sacred site important in the church’s history.  But the Inspirational Tour is not necessarily limited to a particular religious denomination.  An Inspirational Tour is based upon “inspiration” in the sense of stimulation of the mind or emotion, prompting spiritual or intellectual reflection and may hold as a goal some form of intervention to effect positive change.

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Camino de Santiago Route

For several hundred years during the Middle Ages, Santiago de Compostella, located near the northwestern Atlantic coast of Spain, was the third most popular pilgrimage route after Jerusalem and Rome.  Today, tens of thousands of Christians and non-Christians each year follow one of the several official Camino routes through Spain, France or Portugal on foot, by bicycle, or motor vehicle, hoping to get in touch with their own spirituality.  As one Camino pilgrim recently said:  “You look at the landscape and the world in general through different eyes when walking along an ancient pilgrimage route.”  In Spain and in southern France there exists a network of pilgrimage hostels run by local parishes, councils, private owners or pilgrim associations.  Sitting around the dining table at a pilgrim hostel offers the opportunity for fellowship and interchange with pilgrims from around the world.  Monastery hostels offer peace and tranquility.  Cultural Tour Consultants will arrange accommodations in a combination of hostels, conventional hotels and the more luxurious Spanish paradors (government owned high-end hotels in historic buildings and former monasteries). We’ll design your itinerary to include at least a portion of the tour on foot, the length of which will be determined by you.

Turkey – where Christianity, Judaism, and Islam meet

Travel to Turkey to study and reflect upon the history of the monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in a country that has welcomed the faithful of each through the ages.  Constantinople (present day Istanbul) was the seat of the Byzantium until the Ottoman Turks brought Islam to the city.  The Ottoman Sultans welcomed Jews when they were expelled from their native countries, most notably the wave of Sephardic Jews that came during the Spanish Inquisition.  Today the majority of Turks follow Islam.  However it is a secular state with no official state religion.  The Turkish Constitution provides for freedom of religion and conscience, and does not represent or promote a religion.    Turkish people are proud of their long history of religious tolerance.  Within Turkey’s borders, you will find many sites of great significance for each of the three religions.  We suggest you include in your tour:  one or more of the magnificent mosques designed by the great Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan; the Ahrida Synagogue, Istanbul’s oldest synagogue dating back to at least 1400; the Kariye Museum housed in the Byzantine Chora Church in Istanbul that is filled with beautiful mosaics and frescoes considered among the finest in the world; the town of Konya and its Mevlana Museum and tomb, dedicated to the life and teachings of Rumi Celaleddin, the 13th century mystic who founded the order of the whirling dervishes; the lunar landscape of Cappadocia where the volcanic rock outcroppings were used by early Christians as churches, monasteries, and homes; Antakya (Antioch) where you will visit the Church of St. Peter, perhaps the oldest church in the world where Apostle Paul preached to his converts; and Șanliurfa believed by many to be the birthplace of the biblical patriarch Abraham.